Synonyms of carry off

Verb


1. pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage, succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods

usage: be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

2. take away, bear off, bear away, carry away, carry off, remove, take, take away, withdraw

usage: remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"

3. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off, kill

usage: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

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